The garden opened on Anzac Day and blooms in the Bert McKenzie Reserve on State Highway 3, Otorohanga.

Fifty-six soldiers from the Otorohanga district lost their lives in WWI.

Cambridge Museum and Cambridge Library are paying tribute to the men and women who served in the war with displays featuring items brought home by soldiers from both world wars.

Items in the display include everything from a Mills bomb hand grenade to a Turkish bayonet from Gallipoli in 1915.

Cambridge Library's display will be put up next week and will feature books, photos and newspaper clippings on the war.

World War 1 commemorations in the South Waikato will kick off with the laying of white crosses in Putaruru, Tokoroa and Tirau.

Putaruru will be laying crosses in the garden of memories but the date is still to be confirmed.

RSA president Murray Bath said they are hoping that people in the district who had grandparents or great-grandparents who went to the first World War will come forward.

Tokoroa RSA president Ken Reid said they planned on really kicking off commemorations next Anzac Day.

Matamata Piako District Council have worked with the Matamata RSA to erect white cross in Matamata to commemorate the centenary. A field of crosses will be unveiled at Matamata's Founders Park, opposite the RSA on Ngaio St, on Monday.

The 31 crosses are personalised with the name and rank of every soldier who died in World War I.

The council will also plant a memorial garden in Matamata this winter to be ready next Anzac Day.

Morrinsville Returned Services Association will put up crosses in the rose garden in Moorhouse St, next to the Baptist Church, on Monday morning followed by a service at 2pm.

Te Aroha RSA president Russell Smith said members will be erecting 100 crosses outside the clubrooms in Rewi St on Sunday afternoon.

Members of the Pukekohe and Districts RSA and army vehicles will parade down Pukekohe's King St in November as part its World War I 100 year anniversary commemorations.

The parade, scheduled for November 9, will be followed by the RSA's annual Armistice Day service on November 11.